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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.

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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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